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Lethal Politics

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Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917
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AuthorRudolph Rummel
CountryUnited States
SubjectCommunism, Soviet Union, Totalitarianism, Genocide
GenrePolitical history
PublisherTransaction Publishers
Publication date
1990
Pages268
ISBNISBN:0-88738-333-5

Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 is a book by Rudolph Rummel, published by Transaction Publishers in 1990. The book examines genocides and mass murders perpetrated by the Soviet regime from the days of Vladimir Lenin until the last years of the Cold War, with an emphasis on the Joseph Stalin regime.[1][2]

Rummel's central theory was that citizens of totalitarian, especially Communist state systems, were most likely to be killed by their government, whereas "democratic systems provide a path to peace, and universalizing them would eliminate war and minimize global, political violence."[3]

Bibliography

  • Rudolph Rummel (1990). Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917, New Brunswick, Transaction Publishers, ISBN:0-88738-333-5, ISBN:1-56000-887-3

References

  1. ↑ Review by Tamas Meszerics, Journal of Communist Studies, 7(4), 1991, p. 579
  2. ↑ Review by Geoffrey Swain, Slavonic and East European Review, 69(4), 1991, p. 765-66
  3. ↑ R.J. Rummel, Preface to Lethal Politics



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